A hilltop in central Thailand is attracting UFO seekers who believe extraterrestrials hover above a huge Buddha statue, send telepathic communiques, walk across nearby sugarcane fields and use a crocodile-infested lake as a portal from…
One of the biggest mysteries out there in the Universe is inching closer to answers. An astonishing eight new repeating radio signals known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been detected flaring from deep space. At the…
Melinda Snodgrass got the idea for her science fiction novel The High Ground when she started thinking about how awful human beings can be. “I had a sudden vision of this nine-foot-tall alien ant-like creature with mandibles…
All five remaining instruments on NASA’s venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft are back to gathering science data after power overuse in late January interrupted the probe’s operations. NASA made the announcement yesterday (March 3), over a month after the incident…
If there’s one thing science fiction has taught us over the years, it’s that first contact is probably not going to go very well. Now, that may be us humans, a very war- and violence-oriented species,…
The world’s first self-sufficient sea vessel, Energy Observer, is due to leave her home port of Saint-Malo in Brittany, France, over the next few days on the first leg of a global voyage to test…
Renowned entrepreneur Elon Musk this week confirmed earlier rumors that he will be the CEO of a startup called Neuralink Corp. aimed at merging computers with the human brain. The technology could one day lead to what…
Cameras on board the International Space Station (ISS) have picked up a strange, cone-shaped object in orbit around Earth. The unexplained object seemingly keeps pace with the space station as the cameras remain locked on…
As the name suggests, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are devices that provide a direct line of communication between the brain and a computer. Essentially, they pull off the seemingly sci-fi feat of reading minds, and research…
The first steps toward a ‘social network of brains’ Forward-looking: What will communication be like in the far-flung future? If there really does come a day when we’re able to project our thoughts into someone else’s brain,…
“Although I do believe in the flat Earth … this was never an attempt to prove that.” Following the tragic death of ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes, we revisit the real reasons why he launched himself into…
You can catch the sky show, too, if you’re willing to rise before the sun. Even the bright lights of New York City couldn’t swamp this celestial spectacle. Alexander Krivenyshev of WorldTimeZone.com photographed a gorgeous…
Jupiter appears to have more water than anyone expected. Newly released data from NASA’s Juno probe shows that water may make up about 0.25% of the molecules in the atmosphere over Jupiter’s equator. While that doesn’t sound like…